2009年6月大学英语四级考试真题试卷-word版

Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Kimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japan’s car-makers. He’s a young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable  67  . He used to own Toyota’s Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses  68 subways and grains . “It’s not inconvenient at all ,” he says  69  , “having a car is so 20th century.”
Suda reflects a worrisome  70  in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal,  71  among the young ,who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic devices.  72  mini-cars and luxury foreign brands are still popular ,everything in between is  73  .Last years sales fell 6.7 percent, 7.6 percent  74  you don’t count the mini-car market . There have been  75  one-year drops in other nations :sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007  76 a tax increase . But experts say Japan is
77  in that sales have been decreasing steadily  78  time. Since 1990, yearly new-car sales have fallen from 7.8 million to 5.4 million units in 2007.
Alarmed by this state of  79 , the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA)
 80  a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found that a  81 wealth gap, demographic(人口结构的) changes and  82  lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their
 83  longer , replace their cars with smaller ones 84 give up car ownership altogether .JAMA
85  a further sales decline of 1.2 percent this year. Some experts believe that if the trend continues for much longer , further consolidation (合并) in the automotive sector is  86  .
67. A) profit         C) income
   B) payment       D) budget
68. A) mostly        C) occasionally
   B) partially       D) rarely
69. A) Therefore      C) Otherwise
   B) Besides       D) Consequently

70. A) drift          C) current
   B) tide           D) trend
71. A) remarkably    C) specially
   B) essentially     D )particularly
72. A) While         C) When
   B) Because       D) Since
73. A) surging        C) slipping
   B) stretching      D) shaking
74. A) unless         C) as
   B) if             D) after
75. A) lower          C) broader
   B) slighter         D) larger
76. A) liable to        C) thanks to
   B) in terms of      D) in view of
77. A) unique         C) mysterious
   B) similar         D) strange
78. A) over           C) on
   B) against         D) behind
79. A) mess         C) growth
   B) boom         D) decay
80. A) proceeded     C) launched
   B)relieved       D) revised
81. A) quickening    C) strengthening
   B) widening      D) lengthening
82. A) average       C) abundant
   B) massive       D) general
83. A) labels        C) vehicles
   B) cycles        D) devices
84. A) or           C) but
   B) until         D) then
85. A) concludes     C) reckons
   B) predicts       D) prescribes
86. A) distant        C) temporary
   B) likely         D) immediate